Owo was able to maintain virtual independence from the neighboring kingdom of Benin, but was on occasion required to give tribute.

Quli enjoyed virtual independence from Bidar, where the Bahmani sultanate was then based.

They are the economic fulcrum of the Kurdish drive to secure virtual independence for Iraqi Kurdistan.

Will they make Indonesia's military leaders think twice, or lead the pragmatic Chinese to ignore Taiwan's provocative rhetoric about virtual independence?

Inkatha has called for virtual independence for the 11 provinces.

Yet despite the overwhelming logic of peace and a proposed political settlement that would give Chechnya virtual independence, the war goes on.

In that period the great free cities had enjoyed virtual independence; feudalism was gone in them, the arts and commerce thrived.

It's an armed city, a place of virtual sovereign independence within Vietnam.

He has also moved sharply toward the West on a platform of virtual and then eventual independence from an undemocratic Belgrade.

By 1942, the Army Air Forces gained virtual independence in every way from the rest of the Army.